EP3002753A1 - Procédé d'amélioration de la parole et appareil s'y rapportant - Google Patents

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EP3002753A1
EP3002753A1 EP14807150.9A EP14807150A EP3002753A1 EP 3002753 A1 EP3002753 A1 EP 3002753A1 EP 14807150 A EP14807150 A EP 14807150A EP 3002753 A1 EP3002753 A1 EP 3002753A1
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Weiwei Cui
Seung-Yeol Lee
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  • One or more exemplary embodiments relate to a method and apparatus for speech enhancement using a single or multiple microphones, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for speech enhancement to which a speech detection technique and a speaker direction detection technique are applied.
  • a speech recognition technique is a technique in which a speech signal input by a user or the like is recognized as a signal corresponding to a predetermined language.
  • the speech recognition technique may be used, for example, in controlling an operation of a predetermined electronic device such as a speech recognition navigation device, mobile phones, or TVs.
  • a speech enhancement technique which extracts a pure speech signal by removing noise mixed in an input speech signal may be used to improve a recognition rate of speech recognition.
  • speech enhancement-related techniques are beamforming whereby speech in a predetermined direction is focused and ambient noise is removed and noise suppression whereby stationary noise is removed.
  • the present invention provides methods of using a speaker's utterance section and position information in speech enhancement to remove noise.
  • the present invention provides a speech enhancement method based on direction information, wherein estimation of directions based on speech detection information and a speech enhancement control technique are used.
  • a speech enhancement apparatus comprising: a sensor unit comprising at least one microphone; a speech detection unit for detecting speech of a speaker by using a signal of the sensor unit; a direction estimation unit for estimating a direction of the speaker by using a signal of the sensor unit and generating direction information indicating the estimated direction; and a speech enhancement unit for enhancing the speech of the speaker that is input to the at least one microphone, wherein the speech detection unit controls operations of the direction estimation unit and the speech enhancement unit based on a result of the detecting speech by using the speech detection unit, and the direction estimation unit transmits the direction information to the speech enhancement unit.
  • the inventive concept relates to a speech enhancement technique in which a direction of a user is found when the user speaks.
  • the speech enhancement technique works differently in a speech section and a non-speech section, and thus is efficient and ensures high performance.
  • the inventive concept may be applied not only to mobile phones but also to TVs, tablets, or hearing aids.
  • human body-attached computing devices such as watches, rings, or glasses (wearable computers or wearable devices) have recently been getting attention gradually and are produced as products. If the inventive concept is combined with these wearable computing or wearable devices, an efficient low-power algorithm may be provided.
  • a speech enhancement apparatus including: a sensor unit including at least one microphone; a speech detection unit for detecting speech of a speaker by using a signal of the sensor unit; a direction estimation unit for estimating a direction of the speaker by using a signal of the sensor unit and generating direction information indicating the estimated direction; and a speech enhancement unit for enhancing the speech of the speaker that is input to the at least one microphone, wherein the speech detection unit controls operations of the direction estimation unit and the speech enhancement unit based on a result of the detecting speech by using the speech detection unit, and the direction estimation unit transmits the direction information to the speech enhancement unit.
  • a speech enhancement apparatus including: a sensor unit including at least one microphone; a speech detection unit for detecting speech of a speaker by using a signal of the sensor unit; a direction estimation unit for estimating a direction of the speaker by using a signal of the sensor unit and generating direction information indicating the estimated direction; and a speech enhancement unit for enhancing the speech of the speaker that is input to the at least one microphone, wherein the direction estimation unit controls an operation of the speech detection unit based on a result of the estimating a direction and transmits the direction information to the speech enhancement unit, and the speech detection unit controls an operation of the speech enhancement unit based on a result of the detecting speech.
  • the sensor unit may include at least one of a microphone, a camera, and a bone conduction sensor, wherein the speech detection unit detects whether there is a speech component by using a signal of the at least one microphone, detects movement of the lips of a speaker by using a signal of the camera, detects whether a speaker has spoken by using a signal of the bone conduction sensor, or detects speech by combining at least two of the at least one microphone, the camera, and the bone conduction sensor.
  • the sensor unit may include at least one selected from at least two microphones and a camera, and wherein the direction estimation unit estimates a direction by using a difference between signals of the at least two microphones or by recognizing a face of a speaker or detecting movement of the lips of a speaker by using a signal of the camera.
  • the speech enhancement unit may include at least one filter, and when the speech detection unit detects speech, a factor of the at least one filter is updated, and if the speech detection unit does not detect speech, noise for noise modeling is estimated.
  • the speech enhancement unit may use direction information received from the direction estimation unit to perform at least one of adjustment of time when a desired signal source arrives at each microphone, correction of a deviation between microphones, and separation of signal sources.
  • the sensor unit may include at least one of a microphone, a camera, a bone conduction sensor, a proximity sensor, an infrared sensor, an acceleration sensor, or an ultrasonic sensor.
  • Switching the direction estimation unit on and off may be controlled based on the result of the detecting of speech.
  • Switching the speech detection unit on or off may be controlled based on the result of the estimating of a direction.
  • a speech enhancement method including: detecting speech of a speaker; estimating a direction of the speaker by using an input signal based on a result of the detecting of speech and generating direction information indicating the estimated direction; and enhancing the speech of the speaker by using the direction information based on a result of the detecting of speech.
  • a speech enhancement method including: estimating a direction of a speaker by using an input signal and generating direction information indicating the estimated direction; detecting speech of a speaker based on a result of the estimating a direction; and enhancing the speech of the speaker by using the direction information based on the result of the detecting of speech.
  • the sensor unit may include at least one of a microphone, a camera, and a bone conduction sensor, wherein the speech detection unit detects whether there is a speech component by using a signal of the at least one microphone, detects movement of the lips of a speaker by using a signal of the camera, detects whether a speaker has spoken by using a signal of the bone conduction sensor, or detects speech by combining at least two of the at least one microphone, the camera, and the bone conduction sensor.
  • the sensor unit may include at least one selected from at least two microphones and a camera, and wherein the direction estimation unit estimates a direction by using a difference between signals of the at least two microphones or by recognizing a face of a speaker or detecting movement of the lips of a speaker by using a signal of the camera.
  • the speech enhancement unit may include at least one filter, and when the speech detection unit detects speech, a factor of the at least one filter is updated, and if the speech detection unit does not detect speech, noise for noise modeling is estimated.
  • the speech enhancement unit may use direction information received from the direction estimation unit to perform at least one of adjustment of time when a desired signal source arrives at each microphone, correction of a deviation between microphones, and separation of signal sources.
  • the input signal may be a signal from at least one of a microphone, a camera, a bone conduction sensor, a proximity sensor, an infrared sensor, an acceleration sensor, or an ultrasonic sensor.
  • Whether to initiate direction estimation in the estimating of a direction may be determined based on whether speech is detected or not in the detecting of speech.
  • Whether to initiate speech detection in the detecting of speech may be determined based on whether a direction is estimated or not in the estimating of a direction.
  • a computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program for executing the speech enhancement method according to an embodiment.
  • inventive concept and methods of achieving the advantages and features will be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which exemplary embodiments of the inventive concept are shown.
  • inventive concept may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of the inventive concept to one of ordinary skill in the art.
  • a component includes an element, unless there is another opposite description thereto, it should be understood that the component does not exclude another element but may further include another element.
  • terms such as a “... unit” used in the specification refers to a hardware component such as software or hardware component such as FPGA or ASIC, and a “... unit” performs certain functions.
  • a “... unit” is not limited to software or hardware.
  • a “... unit” may be configured in an addressable storage medium or to reproduce one or more processors. Thus, for example, a "...
  • unit includes components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, task components, processes, functions, attributes, procedures, subroutines, segments of programs codes, drivers, firmware, microcodes, circuits, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables. Functions provided in the components and the “... units” may be combined with a smaller number of components and “... units” or separated from additional components and “... units.”
  • Embodiments of the inventive concept are needed to apply a speech enhancement technique using microphones, to actual devices. Also, embodiments of the inventive concept relate to the enhancement of speech by searching for a direction of a user at the moment when the user speaks.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a speech enhancement apparatus 10 according to an embodiment.
  • the speech enhancement apparatus 10 includes a sensor unit 11, a speech detection unit 12, a direction estimation unit 13, and a speech enhancement unit 14.
  • the sensor unit 11 includes at least one microphone.
  • the sensor unit 11 may further include a camera, a bone conduction sensor, a proximity sensor, an infrared sensor, an acceleration sensor, or an ultrasonic sensor in addition to at least one the microphone.
  • the speech detection (SD) unit 12 detects speech of a speaker by using a signal of the sensor unit 11. For example, the speech detection unit 12 detects whether a user has spoken by using a microphone or other sensors.
  • the direction estimation unit 13 estimates a direction of a speaker by using a signal of the sensor unit 11 and generates direction information indicating the estimated direction. For example, the direction estimation unit 13 detects a position of a user by using multiple microphones or an image of a camera.
  • the speech enhancement (ENH) unit 14 enhances speech of a speaker that is input to a microphone.
  • the speech enhancement unit 14 receives information indicating whether the user has spoken and direction information, and enhances a speech signal by using the information indicating whether the user has spoken and the direction information.
  • the speech detection unit 12 controls operations of the direction estimation unit 13 and the speech enhancement unit 14 based on a result of speech detection.
  • Control information C 1 transmitted from the speech detection unit 12 to the direction estimation unit 13 may be used to control switching the direction estimation unit 13 on or off.
  • Control information C 2 transmitted from the speech detection unit 12 to the speech enhancement unit 14 may control filter update of the speech enhancement unit 14.
  • the direction estimation unit 13 transmits direction information to the speech enhancement unit 14.
  • Information ⁇ transmitted from the direction estimation unit 13 to the speech enhancement unit 14 denotes direction information of a user.
  • a camera or bone conduction information may be used besides a microphone signal.
  • camera sensor information may be used in addition to a microphone signal.
  • An input transmitted from the sensor unit 11 to the speech enhancement unit 14 may be a microphone signal.
  • Examples of methods of detecting speech by using the speech detection unit 12 include detecting whether there is a speech component by using a microphone signal, that is, detecting movement of the lips of a speaker by using a camera signal in addition to voice activity detection (VAD) in which speech is used, detecting whether a speaker has spoken by using a bone conduction signal, and detecting speech in a multimodal manner in which the above methods are combined.
  • VAD voice activity detection
  • Examples of estimating a direction of speech by using the direction estimation unit 13 include estimating a direction by using a difference between two or more microphone signals, that is, direction of arrival (DOA) or time difference of arrival (TDOA) using a speech, recognition of a face of a speaker, detecting movement of the lips of a speaker, recognition of gestures, or in a multimodal manner in which these methods are combined.
  • DOA direction of arrival
  • TDOA time difference of arrival
  • the speech enhancement unit 14 may include at least one filter. When speech is detected by the speech detection unit 12, a filter factor is counted, and when no speech is detected by the speech detection unit 12, noise for noise modeling may be estimated. Also, the speech enhancement unit 14 may use direction information received from the direction estimation unit 13 to perform at least one of adjustment of time when a desired signal source arrives at each microphone, correction of a deviation between microphones, and separation of signal sources.
  • the speech enhancement apparatus 10 may operate also as follows.
  • the speech detection unit 12 detects the speech.
  • the speech detection unit 12 turns on the direction estimation unit 13 by using the control information C 1 to search for a direction of the user while the user is speaking, and transmits the direction information ⁇ to the speech enhancement unit 14.
  • filter update of the speech enhancement unit 14 may be blocked to prevent speech distortion.
  • the speech enhancement unit 14 corrects a delay between channels by using the received direction information ⁇ , and performs speech enhancement by adjusting filter update by using the control information C 2 .
  • the direction estimation unit 13 searches for a direction of the user only when the speech detection unit 12 detects speech, and thus, an exact direction of the user may be determined. If a direction is searched for while no speech has been uttered, an inaccurate direction may be estimated due to noise or the like.
  • the speech enhancement unit 14 may perform speech enhancement by using exact direction information. Thus, by using the speech enhancement apparatus 10, speech enhancement performance by using direction estimation performance and direction information may be improved. Also, if speech is not detected, operations of the direction estimation unit 13 and the speech enhancement unit 14 may be stopped, and thus, a gain may be obtained also for computing power of the speech enhancement apparatus 10.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of a speech enhancement apparatus 20 according to another embodiment.
  • a sensor unit 21, a speech detection unit 22, a direction estimation unit 23, and a speech enhancement unit 24 of the speech enhancement apparatus 20 are similar to the sensor unit 11, the speech detection unit 12, the direction estimation unit 13, and the speech enhancement unit 14 of the speech enhancement apparatus 10 of FIG. 1 , respectively.
  • description will focus on differences of the speech enhancement apparatus 20 from the speech enhancement apparatus 10.
  • Structures of the speech detection unit 22 and the direction estimation unit 23 of the speech enhancement apparatus 20 are different from those of the speech detection unit 12 and the direction estimation unit 13 of the speech enhancement apparatus 10.
  • directions of control information C 1 are opposite in the speech enhancement apparatus 10 and the speech enhancement apparatus 20.
  • the direction estimation unit 23 controls an operation of the speech detection unit 22 based on a result of direction estimation.
  • Control information C 1 transmitted from the direction estimation unit 23 to the speech detection unit 22 may be used to control switching the speech detection unit 22 on or off.
  • a direction may be first estimated to selectively process speech related to an operation of the speech enhancement apparatus 20 among detected speeches. For example, not only speech of a speaker to be input to a wearable device but daily conversation of the speaker may also be continuously input to a wearable device which is in the form of a watch.
  • the daily conversion of the speaker is highly likely not to be related to an operation of the wearable device.
  • Speech of a speaker related to an operation of the wearable device is highly likely to be speech of the speaker while viewing a screen of the wearable device.
  • the speech enhancement apparatus 20 if the direction estimation unit 23 estimates a direction of a speaker, based on camera sensor information or the like, that is, if the speaker is viewing a screen of the wearable device, the speech detection unit 22 detects speech so as to select speech that is highly related to use of the speech enhancement apparatus 20. Also, if no direction is estimated, operations of the speech enhancement unit 23 and the speech enhancement unit 24 may be stopped, and thus, a gain may be obtained also for computing power of the speech enhancement apparatus 20.
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a speech enhancement method according to an embodiment.
  • operation 32 whether speech is detected or not is determined. If it is determined that speech is not detected (NO), the method returns to operation 31.
  • a direction of a speaker is estimated by using an input signal in operation 33 and direction information ⁇ indicating the estimated direction is generated.
  • operation 34 if it is determined that speech is detected (YES), in operation 34, the speech of the speaker is enhanced by using the direction information ⁇ of operation 33.
  • a direction is searched for only when speech is detected, and thus, a direction of the speaker may be determined. Also, if it is determined that no speech is detected, direction estimation and speech enhancement may be omitted, and thus a gain may be obtained also for computing power.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a speech enhancement method according to another embodiment.
  • a direction of a speaker is estimated by using an input signal, and direction information indicating the estimated direction is generated.
  • operation 42 whether a direction has been estimated or not is determined. If it is determined that no direction is estimated (when operation 42 corresponds to no), the method returns to operation 41.
  • operation 42 if it is determined that a direction is estimated (when operation 42 corresponds to yes), speech of a speaker is detected in operation 43.
  • operation 44 whether speech is detected or not is determined. If it is determined that no speech is detected (when operation 44 corresponds to no), the method returns to operation 41.
  • operation 45 the speech of the speaker is enhanced by using direction information ⁇ of operation 41.
  • speech is detected if a direction of a speaker is able to be estimated, and thus, speech, which is highly likely to be used in speech enhancement, may be selected. Also, if no direction is estimated, speech detection and speech enhancement may be omitted, and thus, a gain may be obtained also for computing power.
  • Stationary noise of a predetermined level (for example, a sine wave and white noise) is reproduced under situations where directions of speakers and noise directions are different.
  • a level of noise is assumed to be 10.
  • an input signal noise level may be 10
  • an output signal noise level may be about 8.
  • noise modeling may be performed by using a speech enhancement unit.
  • an input single noise level may be 10
  • an output signal noise level may be about 3.
  • direction estimation and speech enhancement are performed.
  • speech enhancement is performed by using direction information generated based on direction estimation, the speech enhancement may be focused on a speaker direction to concentrate more on the speech of the speaker, and an influence of a signal in a noise direction may be reduced, and accordingly, a noise level in an output signal is reduced.
  • the speech enhancement apparatus of the embodiment of the inventive concept even when noise of the same level is present and input before and after a speaker has spoken, there is a difference in output signal noise levels.
  • noise of a predetermined level is output and thus noise modeling may be performed, and when there is speech of a speaker, a noise level is reduced and thus speech of a speaker may be enhanced.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a mobile phone, according to an embodiment.
  • the speech enhancement apparatus 10 of FIG. 5 is substantially the same as the speech enhancement apparatus 10 of FIG. 1 having a basic block structure.
  • microphones may be located at positions marked as o.
  • microphones may be placed at an upper part and a lower part of the mobile phone.
  • the positions and the number of microphones are not limited thereto, and microphones may be placed at other various positions.
  • the speech detection unit 12 and the direction estimation unit 13 of the speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a mobile phone may use speech information of the microphones.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a TV, according to an embodiment.
  • microphones may be located at positions marked as o.
  • microphones may be placed at an upper edge of the TV.
  • the positions and the number of microphones are not limited thereto, and microphones may be placed at other various positions.
  • the TV may include a camera that is not shown.
  • the TV may perform a multimedia function such as a video call function by using a microphone and a camera.
  • a user may recognize speech or make a video call in front of the TV.
  • the speech detection unit 12 and the direction estimation unit 13 of the speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a TV may use both speech information and image information of the camera.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates a speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a tablet, according to an embodiment.
  • microphones may be located at positions marked as o.
  • microphones may be placed at a lower edge of a tablet.
  • the positions and the number of microphones are not limited thereto, and microphones may be placed at other various positions.
  • Usage behaviors of a tablet of a user vary, and thus a hybrid method according to usage behaviors may be selected.
  • the speech detection unit 12 of the speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a tablet detects speech based on speech information.
  • the speech detection unit 12 and the direction estimation unit 13 of the speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a tablet may use both speech information and image information of a camera. If face recognition is not possible, like a scenario of a speech enhancement apparatus for mobile phones, the speech detection unit 12 and the direction estimation unit 13 of the speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a tablet may use speech information of the microphones.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates a speech enhancement apparatus 20 for a wearable device according to another embodiment.
  • the speech enhancement apparatus 20 for a wearable device of FIG. 8 has almost the same structure as that of the speech enhancement apparatus 20 of FIG. 2 having a block structure.
  • microphones may be located at positions marked as o. For example, microphones may be placed at a left upper end and a right lower end of the wearable device. However, the positions and the number of microphones are not limited thereto, and microphones may be placed at other various positions.
  • the direction estimation unit 23 of the speech enhancement apparatus 20 for a wearable device notifies whether a face is recognized or not by using camera image information. Next, if a face is recognized, the speech detection unit 22 and the speech enhancement unit 24 operate. If a face is not recognized, the speech detection unit 22 and the speech enhancement unit 24 do not operate. If the wearable device has a single microphone, direction information ⁇ of the direction estimation unit 23 is not transmitted to the speech enhancement unit 24.
  • FIG. 9 illustrates a speech enhancement apparatus 10 for a headset or hearing aid, according to an embodiment.
  • the speech detection unit 12 of the speech enhancement apparatus for a headset or hearing aid may detect speech by using bone conduction sensor information in addition to speech information.
  • the inventive concept relates to a method of searching for a speaker direction at the moment when the user speaks to enhance a speech, wherein the method is a speech enhancement method that efficiently operates by distinguishing a speech section and a non-speech section and secures high performance.
  • the speech enhancement method may also be applied to TVs, tablets, or hearing aid besides mobile phones.
  • body-attached type computing devices such as watches, rings, or glasses are gaining attention and appear in product forms in the industry, and if the method is combined with these devices, the method may contribute as an efficient low-power algorithm.
  • the inventive concept can also be embodied as computer readable codes on a computer readable recording medium.
  • the computer readable recording medium is any recording device that can store data which can be thereafter read by a computer system.
  • Examples of the computer readable recording medium include read-only memory (ROM), random-access memory (RAM), CD-ROMs, magnetic tapes, floppy disks, optical data storage devices, etc. (such as data transmission through the Internet).
  • the computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion. Also, functional programs, codes, and code segments for accomplishing the inventive concept can be easily construed by programmers skilled in the art to which the inventive concept pertains.

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